Advertising Sales Director - SEA

About the Role

As an Advertising Sales Director for SEA market on the Enterprise Advertising Sales Team in our Bangkok office, you’ll play a vital role in building and leading an exceptional sales organization while spearheading our growth in the SEA region. You'll create a culture of excellence, coaching your team to success while personally contributing to key strategic relationships and sales initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of sales experience in digital advertising or related industries
• 4+ years of people management experience
• Proven success building, managing, and scaling sales teams in SEA
• Experience selling performance marketing products or analytics/data platforms
• Strong coaching and mentoring capabilities with demonstrable team development results
• Strategic approach to sales with focus on enterprise-level relationships
• Strong analytical skills to identify market trends and growth opportunities
• Excellent professional presence and business acumen
• Deep understanding of local market dynamics
• A people-first leader who excels at identifying and nurturing talent
• A strategic thinker who can translate market insights into actionable sales plans
• Comfortable presenting to and influencing all levels of an organization
• Results-driven with a track record of building high-performing teams

Bonus points if you have:

• Additional Asian language skills are a plus
• Flexibility to travel throughout Southeast Asia, SG, MY, PH

How you’ll make an impact:

As a Advertising Sales Director for SEA Market, you’ll bring value by:

• Recruit, develop, and retain top sales talent across the SEA region
• Set clear performance expectations, KPIs, and development paths for your team members
• Implement effective coaching and mentoring programs to accelerate team growth
• Foster a collaborative, high-energy culture that drives consistent results
• Lead regular team meetings, pipeline reviews, and strategy sessions
• Develop compensation structures and incentive programs that motivate peak performance
• Create territory and account allocation strategies to maximize team effectiveness
• Provide regular feedback and conduct performance evaluations
• Build cross-functional relationships to support team success

Benefits

If you ask Taboolars what they love about working here, they’ll tell you that they’ve been empowered to realize their full potential while growing and learning from and with smart and talented people. They’ll also share more about:

• Well-being: Enjoy a range of locally relevant benefits and workplace perks.
• Flexibility: We offer a hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office with an option to come in more often if desired.
• Work with some of the biggest names: We work with some of the biggest names in the business. Our publisher partners include Yahoo, Conde Nast, Fox Sports, NBCU, ESPN, CBS, and E! Online. Our advertiser clients include Wells Fargo, Honda, Pinterest, Expedia and Honda.

About Taboola

Taboola empowers businesses to grow through performance advertising technology that goes beyond search and social and delivers measurable outcomes at scale. Taboola works with thousands of businesses who advertise directly on Realize, Taboola’s powerful ad platform, reaching approximately 600M daily active users across some of the best publishers in the world. Publishers like NBC News, Yahoo, and OEMs such as Samsung, Xiaomi and others use Taboola’s technology to grow audience and revenue, enabling Realize to offer unique data, specialized algorithms, and unmatched scale.